Psychiatrists Under Fire— British Psychological Society Attacks Biomedical Model of Mental illness
British psychologists are to say that current psychiatric diagnoses such as bipolar disorder are useless.
British psychologists are to say that current psychiatric diagnoses such as bipolar disorder are useless.
Last week, Blue Rider Press published Gary Greenberg’s The Book of Woe: The DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry, a powerful critique of the entire DSM methodology.
It’s already old news that the National Institute of Mental Health, NIMH, the mother ship of mental health research in the world, has officially diagnosed psychiatry’s billing bible – the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual 5 – as suffering from extreme lack of science, proclaiming it dead on arrival. What isn’t known are the implications of NIMH’s announcement.
From depression to anxiety and ADHD, more of us now suffer from mental health problems and need pills to treat them — or so we’re told.
Now, in a move sure to rock psychiatry, psychology and other fields that address mental illness, the director of the National Institutes of Mental Health has announced that the federal agency–which provides grants for research on mental illness–will be “re-orienting its research away from DSM categories”
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